This is a forum for Shelley Barratt's writings including poetry, prose, and song lyrics to accompany her original music.

Archive for June, 2010

Anyway you wake you take it through the pain you fake it
But it comes around seeping through
Underground

What if this were it your lifeline choices pushing through the pipeline
When it comes around seeping through
Underground

And all is black and blue when washing off this crude
It filters into June’s water current break the food chain
…to the earth from the earth to the earth
From the earth to the earth
It comes around seeping through
Underground

Do you beg and plead for mercy or do you leave the scene and blame me
When it comes around seeping through when it comes around seeping through
When it comes around seeping through
Underground

And all is black and blue when washing off this crude
It filters into June’s water current break the food chain
There was a life to save but yesterday’s too late
For with our lives we pay when we don’t know what to say
For all the time we’ve lost how can we name the cost

From the earth to the earth from the earth to the earth
From the earth to the earth from the earth to the earth
From the earth to the earth from the earth to the earth